Re: [agi] Cog Sci Experiment

2008-11-22 Thread Acilio Mendes
My question is: how do they know your vegetable association? And if I told you that if you didn't answer CARROT, odds are you choose CELERY? Associating the result experiment with the math questions is the only association taking place here. It's caused by the distracting suggestion on the title

[agi] IBM and US government Seek to Build Computer Brain as Smart as a Cat

2008-11-22 Thread Daniel Allen
The details: http://news.google.com/news?hl=enned=q=Dharmendra+ModhabtnG=Search+News --- agi Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription:

Re: [agi] IBM and US government Seek to Build Computer Brain as Smart as a Cat

2008-11-22 Thread Ben Goertzel
This is **really** cool work, however neither in all the press about it, nor in Dharmendra Modha's prior writings, do I see any ideas that lead me to believe this project in itself is going to be a huge breakthrough But it does seem like a worthwhile step along the path to eventual

Re: [agi] Cog Sci Experiment

2008-11-22 Thread Charles Hixson
Acilio Mendes wrote: My question is: how do they know your vegetable association? ... Try this experiment: repeat the same procedure of the video, but instead of asking for a vegetable, ask for an 'an animal that lives in the jungle'. Most people will answer 'Lion' even though lions don't

RE: [agi] To what extent can our minds experience the consciousness of external reality?

2008-11-22 Thread Ed Porter
Harry, Like most words, information, is used differently by different people at different time. It can be used to describe the extent to which a given communication between two computing entities conveys knowledge to the receiving entity. In this case, something only has information if the

RE: [agi] A paper that actually does solve the problem of consciousness

2008-11-22 Thread Ed Porter
Wannabe, If you read my post of Fri 11/21/2008 8:02 PM in this thread, you will see that I said the sense of oneness with the external world many of us feel may just be sensory experience and perception of the external world, uninterrupted by thoughts of oneself or our brain's chatbot. This

Re: [agi] Cog Sci Experiment

2008-11-22 Thread Acilio Mendes
Mike, Just some clarification. When a mention mentalism i refer to the performing arts, not the brach of psychologic studies. The known facts I mentioned are found in the mentalist literature and confirmed only by the experience of the mentalists and magicians of that community. Often they claim

Re: [agi] Cog Sci Experiment

2008-11-22 Thread Mike Tintner
Acilio, Yes I'd checked on mentalism. And I take all your points. But that there is any shared culture here suggests that there must be some substance to the claims, which of course would need scientific investigation, if none has been done already. I find this stuff exciting precisely

Re: [agi] Cog Sci Experiment

2008-11-22 Thread Eliezer Yudkowsky
I thought crocodile. Go figure. On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 12:05 PM, Matt Mahoney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't get it. I thought of tomato (but technically it is a fruit). -- Matt Mahoney, [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- On Fri, 11/21/08, Mike Tintner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Mike Tintner